Posts Tagged ‘Peck’
This is the family of George Morris and wife Hannah Maria Newberry. Our direct ancestor is Rosella Newberry Morris who is child number three. She married Lucius Peck and later John Jenkins.
This is one of many keepsake photographs in our collection of direct ancestor Rosella Newberry Morris Peck Jenkins. She was born in Lee County, Iowa in 1848. Her parents, George and Hannah Maria Newberry Morris had been driven from their home in Nauvoo, Illinois by a mob. Rosella was born just across the Mississippi River […]
John Jenkins was born in Wales to James Jenkins and Elizabeth Davis. He was the middle child of three, an older sister and a younger brother. John’s parents heard the Gospel from the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and were baptized in 1847. Speaking only Welsh, they were taught and baptized […]
Rosella was born to goodly parents, George Morris and Hannah Maria Newberry in Nauvoo, Illinois. George was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints from England and Hannah was from an early New England family who had also joined the Mormon Church. Rosella was the third child and third daughter born to […]